Idiot Wind (here live from the 2. leg of the RTR 1976) "was one of Dylan’s great great prophetic national songs, with one rhyme that took in the whole nation, I said it was a 'national rhyme' : Idiot wind / Blowing like a circle around my skull / From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol",
the poet and companion on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour Allen Ginsberg argued in a 1976 interview for New Age Journal. And he added: "Dylan told Denise [Denise Mercedes, a guitarist whom Dylan admires] that nobody else had noticed it or mentioned it to him; that the line had knocked him out, too. He thought it was an interesting creation, however he had arrived at it. And I thought it was absolutely a height of Hart Crane-type poetics. I was talking earlier about resentment. “Idiot Wind” is like Dylan acknowledging the vast resentments, angers and ill-temper on the Left and the Right all through America during the ‘Sixties, calling it an “idiot wind” and saying “It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe” or ”it’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves”, [Complete interview via allenginsberg.... ]
Well, we all know that the conventional idea and the one usually applied to Idiot Wind and every song on Blood On The Tracks is that it's about the failure of Dylan's marriage. Bob himself denied the album is about his relationship with his wife Sara and maintains that the songs were inspired by Chekov short stories. That might be true but it might be part of the narrative that Dylan has chosen to spin about his songwriting. So what? Follow the "Dylanists" or Allen Ginsberg here (who was quite close to Bob during the tour) or follow your nose ...
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